Multi-monitor Setup: Left and Right are *stretched* (Center is OK though)

[Cannibal Corpse]

Hello all,
In games, when I rotate and pan, the left and right monitors are stretched. I tried larger FOVs, but it does not fix it.

Is this an anomaly, or inherently part of the multi-munitor setup?

I am using Win10, GTX 1080 and 3X ASUS MG248Q monitors.

thanks for your comments!

 

[thesmokingman]

Anomaly, no. The side panels are not for looking at directly instead you keep looking straight ahead as the side panels are for peripheral vision.

 

[Armenius]

The reason it looks stretched is because the image is still being projected on a virtual 2D rectangle. Aspect ratios that wide need to be projected spherically to avoid distortion, which is up to the game programmers to do.

 

[cybereality]

Yes, this is normal. It was jarring to me too when I first got triple-monitors and it's just the way it is. Best to not look at the sides when playing.

 

[Ripskin]

If you look straight ahead its not too bad as your peripheral can compensate a bit. Our eyes can some similar things, it's just that our brains clean up a lot of things be fore we "see".

 

[Koween]

Isn't the nvidia multiprojection thing supposed to fix it?

 

[JRUHg]

yes

nvidia send fixer to multimonitor gamers after decade.

 

[DoubleTap]

Isn't the nvidia multiprojection thing supposed to fix it?

It has to be designed into the game. I don't think any games support this yet in surround.

 

[Dan_D]

Between that and the proliferation of large 4K TV's and increasingly larger dedicated monitors I think multi-monitor is dying out. Support for it was often pretty piss poor from the start. The fact that you get a fish eye effect on the side monitors is unfortunately quite normal. I enjoyed the peripheral vision aspect of the technology but I don't miss the setup, non-existent HUD scaling and increased performance demands of such resolutions.